Brick Like This! is the new board game from the LEGO Group and Asmodee. It was unveiled at UK Toy Fair and Blocks has a first look at the party style building game.
Last year, the LEGO Group and Asmodee launched a new partnership to release board games that include LEGO bricks. The first game to come out of the collaboration was Monkey Palace, a traditional strategy-based game that has players building up a structure as they take turns to play.
The next LEGO game from Dotted Games, the label that Asmodee set up for brick-based fun, is Brick Like This! It debuted at UK Toy Fair in London and is a party style game for up to eight players.
Price and precise release date are currently unknown, but it will launch in 2025.
In Brick like This!, teams race to build models from LEGO bricks – there are six rounds and the team that has won the most point wins.
Each team has an instructor and a guesser – the instructor takes a card and looks at it. The card shows a combination of LEGO bricks that can be built with the elements provided in the box. The instructor must tell the guesser what to build and the builder must match what is on the card – without seeing it for themselves. The builder can only pick up the bricks the instructor has told them to.
There are four different types of shape cards – 5, 6, 7 and 8. The numbers correspond to how many bricks a pattern requires – so a 5 card shows a pattern that uses five bricks.
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When a round starts, all teams play at the same time – the first team to complete their model shouts ‘brick!’. They can’t check they have it correct, they just have to have confidence. At that point, the remaining teams have another 30 seconds to finish their builds. When the timer runs out, everyone can check their model – and all teams that have it right get points.
To make it harder, challenge cards can also be applied during each round – challenge cards make things harder, with rules such as ‘the instructor can’t say any numbers’ or ‘the builder must hum constantly’.
The instructions include guidance on a cooperative version of the game for two or three players.
It’s fast paced and full of LEGO building – but seems accessible enough for non-LEGO fans to enjoy playing as well as dedicated AFOLs.